Example sentences of "[verb] to have a [adj] grasp of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every teacher , from the reception class upwards to the age of 16 , needs to have a confident grasp of what the whole process of schooling and education can provide for and require from the pupil . |
| 2 | The Committee suggested that the Lord Chancellor should appoint chairmen and clearly favoured an increase in the use of lawyer chairmen principally because lawyers were considered to have a good grasp of principles of procedural fairness . |
| 3 | Local firms will need to have a good grasp of the challenges or threats that 1992 will bring , to have a good feel for which sectors and industries locally will be most affected when the barriers come down . |
| 4 | You would need to have a sound grasp of English history before you began ; and you would need , at every point , to relate your study of the literature of any given period to the state and development of the language . |
| 5 | In front of the all-seeing eye of the TV camera , he did not appear to have a firm grasp of America 's problems or a clear understanding of where he wanted to go . |
| 6 | He seemed to have a solid grasp of what it 's really like to live in one of these estates . |
| 7 | You have to be a specialist , and even then , you can only hope to have a proper grasp of a small proportion of the scientific theories . |